Chopping and slicing machine



Dec. 6, 1927. 1,652,132 W. H.. DONALD I CHOPPING AND SLICING MACHINE I Filed Nov. 26, 1926 3 Sheets-Shut I Jim/auto! t 1 fltt'o'rn/ey 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Dec. 6, 1927.

W. H. DONALD GHOPPING AND SLICINGMACHINE Filed Nov. 26, 1925 Dec. 6, 1927.'

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WI LIAM IIQ DONALD, or CINCINNATI, oI IIo; Ass'IcNon or ONE-HALF ro rnnnnarcx A. KNOWLES, on CINCINNATI, OHIO.

. CHOPPINQ AND SLICING MACHINE.

Application filed liovember 26, 1926. Serial No. 150,804. I

My invention relates to machines for cutwith this third shaft 11, in which the end of ting meats and the like, andits object is to this shaft is exposed; this shaft end having provide a simple, compact combination of a a diametrical slot 13 (Fig. 3). The chopper slicing device and a chopping device, avail- 14 1s of a well known design, comprising a able for the use of small meat stores and the casing 15 with a hopper 16 at its top, open- 60 i like, where the counter space is limited, the ing down to a feed screw 17 on a horizontal individual sales relatively small, and the inaxis with a shaft extension 18 journaled in vestment warranted for a.machin'e for such a hub 19' at one end of the casing; which purposes is to be kept as low as possible. hub 19 fits snugly in the socket of the boss '10 More specific objects are, to provide for 12, whereupon a flat bit 20 on the end of this so,

quick mounting of the article to be sliced, shefeeXtensien 18 fits ug y i the 1"v 1 quick adjustment of thickness of the 0f the shaft 11. -A set screw 21in the botslice, and eady connection of the chopping tom 01 the bOSS '12 is screwed Inward to en- Lmeans for operation by electric power withgage. in a, r e in the bottom of the hub 19,

I out the need of special care by the operator thus holding the chopper 14 upon the casing 70 to avoid damage to the electric motor by 2 with its shaft 'extenslon '18 operatively con overloading, so-that a relatively small motor, nected with the shaft 11. At the opposite maybe employed for the chopping, or the end of the chopper casing 15 the feed screw slicing, or for both chopping and slicing '17'carr1es the coaxial. cutter 22 with radial simultaneously. Other objects will. appear blades r t ing against the inner surface of 75 in the course of the following description. a perforated plate 23 which is-clamped in I attain these objects by the device illushe end of-- the casing by a collar 24 screwed trated, for example, in the accompanying fll'e e s ng, while a pin '25 in the casing drawings, in whichend, engaging in a notch 26 in the edge of Fig. 1 is a general perspective view of the t e p at ;23 pr vents this platefrom rotat- 8o d vic f j 1 v mg. -As 1s well known in theart,'the screw Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and 17 -feed$ P01110115 of meat 0 coming 'Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same, down from the hopper o ,the cutter 22, certain parts of the device being represented which, coactfmg with they edges of the per;- as broken away 'or omitted, to reveal certain forat ons in the plate 23, cuts the portions 86 interior parts, and the motor being repre- "I m l pm'tlcles which .are forced out sented by dotted lines only, for-the same h gh he perforatlons; and plates with reason p perforations ofdifferent sizes may] be 1 A flat base-1 has at one'corner' an u stand-" mounted inthe chopper causing the meat or ingbox-like casing 2, inthebottomo which the e t0b e chopped is mounted the. motor 3', which has'its shaft finely 'dlilded'partlcles. A tray 27 forms a extended throughonewall of the casin to top or cover for themam cas1ng 2. and the carry the pinion 1in a housing'5 forme by h ng-5, "and has a spout 28 dischargm'g this wall and an additional wall 6 upstandfln o he hopper 16 of the chopper 14.

4o ing from the base 1. The slicing-knife The shaft 7 has loosely mounted on it a 95' shaft 7 is journaled"n the casing walls paral- 'pini n 29 which meshes with a gear 30 fixed 191 with the motor haft, ext ndi t on the shaft 11 that dr1ves the chopper 14. throu h the .additional wall 6 to carry the. This P111101} 29 has fast to it a clutch memcirc ar knife or cutter 8 outside this wall; her hi 15 Shlf ed by a lever 31 fuland within the housin 5 has fixed on it the crumed on the wall" of the-casing 2 to engear 9 meshing with t e motor shaft'pinion gage with a clutch member 32 pinned on .the 4. A suitable guard lofpartly surrounds the shaft 7, the "pinion 29 sliding therewith. sharp. periphery of the-cutter 8, as an exten- This lever has at its upper end a hprizontal sion of the casing walls and the additional extension 33, inwardly of the casing 2, 5 or housing wall 6. 7 which has near its inner end a fulcrum 34 106 Y A third shaft 11 is joilrnald inthe casing for the handle 35 that extends outside the walls, parallel with the motor shaft and the casing 2 through a recess in the upper edgeshaft 7, and the casing wall opposite to that of the casing wall,a cross a segment 36 dis-i side on wh'ch the circular slicing knife is osed along the bottom of the recess and as located has a boss 12 with a socket concentric a wing an upstanding lug 37 close to its'end 110 into more or less nearest the chopper When this lever 32 is swung to this end of the segment the handle 35 is dropped between this lug 37 and the adjacent end of the recess: and 'it is in ,this position that the lever holds the clutch 29' in engagement so that the slicingknife shaft 7 drives the chopper 14, through the medium of the pinion 29, gear 30 and shaft 11. In Fig. 3 these parts are shown out of this position, so that the motor 3' would drive the slicing knife 8 but not the chopper 14.

The motor 3 is started or stopped by I means of the switch 38 having the upwardl extended lever, 39 which, swung to the le in Fig. 3, as shown, stops the motor. The

bar 40, with one end pivoted to the upper part of the clutch lever 31 and its other end sliding under the pin 41, which is fixed just above the switch lever 39, has inward extensions 42 and 42' where it extends over the switch casing alongside the lever 39 of the switch, engaging this lever as the bar is shifted one way or ths other along with the As'this clutch lever 31 is.

clutch lever 31. swung to the right from the position shown in Fig. 3, the bar 40 first, by engagementof its left hand lug or extension 42 with the switch lever 39, throws this lever to the right, starting the motor 3, before the clutch lever 31 has swung far enough to engage the clutch members 29 and 32 together. If only the slicing knife 8 is to be operated the clutch lever 31 is not thrown further to the right; but if the chopper 14 is to be operated also,

the lever 31 is thrown completely to the right, causing the clutch members 29 and 32 to engagetogether during this last stage chopper 14 is connected; avoiding overloading of the motor at starting, as would occur were the chopper, with material therein, connected while starting the motor. Driving the chopper 14 from the shaft carrying the relatively heavy slicing cutter 8, with the latter acting as a fly wheel for the chopper, and having this preventative against overload of the motor.in starting,

permits a relatively small'motor to used; or, as compared with merely a chopping machine driven by a motor and having a fly wheel, the slicing cutter 8 serves the purpose of such fly wheel and at the same time is available for slicing, in conjunction with other parts of the apparatus now to be described.

The base 1 has at its ends, extending out from the side where the slicing cutter 8 is located, foot extensions 43 and 44, which 47, which is a trough shaped body with feet straddling the rails and one open end of-the trough toward the cutter 8 so that a piece of meat or the like, resting therein, may he slid across the cutting plane and then, with the carrler, along the rails, so that the rotating cutter 8 cuts a slice therefrom.-

This carrier 47 has on its side that isforemost in cutting direction lugs 48 at oppositeends, in which is fixed a rod 49 extending from one lug to the other; and a frame 50 comprises a barrel 51 embracing th' rod 49, arms 52 extending in across the in erior of the carrier 47, and a handle member 53 extending between the inner ends of these arms. The width of this frame, or length of its barrel 51, is sufiiciently less than the extent of the rod 49 to allow a considerable degree of sliding of this frame toward or away from the cutter 8. At the end of the handle member 53 nearer the cutter the holder member 54, of L-shaped cross-section,

has an upright member of this cross-section pivoted, about midway of the length of the holder member, to the frame 50, with the horizontal member projected under the frame, away from the cutter 8. This holder member is provided with a series of teeth or prongs 55 projecting down from its, bottom, and another series of teeth or prongs 56 projecting down along'its surface that is presented toward the cutter 8. As long as thepiece of meat or the like has ample length, it is held by the lower set of prongs 55, which are inserted in it b swinging the frame 50 down and the ho den therewith; and the side prongs 56 are used when the piece,after continued slicing, has become too short to' be held by the lower prongs 55 and is pushed up to this side of the holder .member as it swings down, with the side prongs entering the piece and holding it on the side of the holder member.

are bent into staple shape and inserted from the back through holes 57 and 58 in the upright part of the holder member 54,, out

As herein shown, wires, each with both ends pointed,

through the front or side nearer the cutter 8, after which the pointed end parts are bent down, so that each wire forms one lower prong 55 and one upper'prong 56. .As herein shown, there are nine of these wires,

forming asmany sets of prongs 55 and 56.

That part of the base 1 not occu iedby the casing 2 forms a slab onto whic drops theslices of meat or the like cut by the cutter from the piece held in the carrien as just described, and preferably, to keep these.

slices from getting off this slabunder the carrier 47, there is an upstanding fence member 59 formed on the base, from end to end thereof, along the ed 'enext to the carrier and extending close a ong the rotary cutter 8 between that and the carrier. To gauge the thickness of the slices,- a gauge plate 60 of the plate 60; so that as these posts 62 and their arms 61 are oscillated the gauge plate 60 is swung closer to or farther from the cutting plane, accordingly as .a thinner or thicker slice is desired. The base 1 is hollow on its lower side, and these posts 62, Journaled in the top of the base, extend down therethrough and have arms 63 fixed on their lower ends, extending in opposite direction from their upper arms 61, with their outer ends pivoted to respective ends'of a bar 64; in the hollow lower part of the base 1. A disk 65, in this lower part of the base-between the bar 64 and the top of the base, has a short-shaft 66 up through the top of the base and has a pin 67 eccentrically located therein and engaging in a slot in the bar 64, so that oscillation of this disk oscillates the bar 64and the posts 62 connected therewith as above described, which thus efiect adjustment of the gauge plate 60 as described. On the upper end of the disk shaft 66, above the top'of the base 1, an arm 68 is fixed, projecting over a-sector plate 69 1 on the top of the base 1 concentric with the holes 70, and the arm 68 disk 65.. This sector plate 69 has a series oi hasa detent-71 sliding up and down through its free end part to enter any one-of these holes 70v over which the arm 1s swung; thus holding the gauge plate 60 in any one of a large number of .adjustmentsforcutting as many difa frame piece 73-made separate the upper part 0 this'piece forming1 47, may be made as 72 removable (Fig.

support, and a downwardly formin the support ferent thiclmesses of slices...

The casing 2 preferably has its rear wall anism in the casing, in addition to having its top, which is the tray 27, removable. Also, "preferably, the clutch lever 31 and the switch 38, before described, are mounted on 4 from and secured to the ad'acent wall of the casing2;. these ment 36, a lateral part forming t e-switc rojected J for'the lcrum o the clutch ever 31, as best seen in Fig. 3. The entire design preferably is such that the base 1 and its casing 2 and the wall part 72 and tray 27 as well as the body of the carriercastings, .whichare enameled to have smooth sanitary surfaces 'sembled as is usual wherever contacted by the meat or the like being cho ped or sliced. The chopper 14, being rea iy removable from its mounting on the casing 2, and .being readily disaswith choppers of this kind, may be readily cleaned. For sharpening the rotary slicing cutter 8, a small grinding wheel 74 is mounted on a short 2)'.for access to the mechrotary slicing cutter art Whennot in use, thisgrindingdevice swings inside the casing; but is accessible upon removal of the wall part 7 2, whereupon the llnk 76 may be swung outward and the shaft may be slid/over until the grinding wheel 74 rests its side-face against the edge of the cutter. Then as the cutter is rotated, the wheel grinds its edge, being also rotated by this engagement; this principle of ap lying a grinder to a cutter being known in the art, but the mounting, for applying the grinder, or putting it away, being comparatively simple andconvenient to use.

I have dcscrib d the disclosed invention specifically, as is required, but it will be understood that various modifications are possible without departure from the scope and spirit. of my invention, which is defined in the following claims: 1. In a machine of the character described, a rotary slicing cutter and a chopping device operatively connected together, and means whereby said cutter may be caused to slice an article, said cutter acting as a fly wheel for saidfchopping device.

2. Ina machine of the character described, a rotary slicing cutter and achopping device,

a motor driving said rotary cutter, a switch means stopping starting said motor,

device whereby, said cutter and choppin may be operatively connected toget er only caused to slice an article, said cutter acting as a fly, wheel for said chopping device.

3. ,In a machine of the character described, a bed, a casing near one end of said bed, a and a chopping device on opposite sides of said casing, mechanism inside said casing whereby said cutterand 'said'cho ping device are operatively connected toget er, and means slidably mounted on said bed whereby said cutter may be caused to slice an article, said cutter acting as a fly wheel for said chop ing device.

. 4. In a machine 0 the character described, 7 a rotary slicin cutter and a chopping device,

.a clutch-by w ich said cutter and cho ping device are.operatively' connected toget er, .a motor operativel connected with said slicing cutter, a switch for startingv and stopping said motor, clutch, and an operative connection from said lever to said switch whereby said switch is set to start'said motor during a first stage of swinging of said lever, said clutch being operated to operatively connect said cutter and said chopping device by further swinging-of said lever.

5 In a machine of the character i a lever to operate sa d a rotary slicin cutter and a choppin device, a clutch by w ch said cutter and c o ping device are operatively connected toget er, a motor operatively connected with ,said cutter, a'switch for starting and stopping said motor, a lever to operate said clutch, a bar connected to said lever and engaging with said switch, and means holdin said bar in engagement with said switch uring a first stage of swingingof said lever, to set said 1 0- lever engages said clutch together to opera- 5 tively connect said chopping device-with said slicing cutter.

WILLIAH H. DONALD. 

